I'm very sorry to see that the "fix" they came up with for the greenhouse didn't take into account one of my favourite glass roof effects - the shadows thrown by the glass roof pieces' framework... I love that effect in sunrooms.
See what I mean here:
Before the update:
After the update:
Anyone shares my opinion?
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I agree with this. Trust me, I'm so happy it's finally fixed! But if somewhere down the road they could update it so that the shadows came back that would be appreciated. But don't get me wrong, if they don't, it's not that big a deal either, I'm thrilled it's fixed, like I said
And BryonyRae, I wouldn't hold my breath for another update.
We can count ourselves lucky for EA doing that ONE fix.
That's more than we could ever expect in the past.
For instance many of us are still waiting for a revamped launcher.
I am just back from wasting two hours of work. The greenhouse wasn't listed under installed content (but it was installed!).
So I had to clear out the DCCache folder and install every content again from scratch!
Now my sim got a new moodlet, "Not as seen on TV -50".
Don't worry.Be happy.
That's a bad joke. We could have done THAT ourselves with the help of Inge's mod!
Thanks for nothing, EA.
It does seem a shame that they've gone. I'm happy with the fix though.
Anyway that's not what I call a fix.
Oh gawd... my plants will get wet! You know how much plants hate water.
Seriously. I was trying to give an alternative option for people. No reason to get an attitude.
But I like the shadows they cast in sunrooms (which are used during all four seasons)...
Totally an understandable want (the shadows are so pretty!!). But I don't know if there's any way around it with the current game engine.
When the roof pieces were conceptualized and initially developed, it was most likely in a Seasons-free game.
So the roof pieces were designed to be sculptures that would let light through. Sculptures can let light through, but unfortunately they also let weather through.
Instead of acting like sculptures, many people wanted the roof pieces to act like roofs.
Roofs don't let weather through, but unfortunately they also don't let light through.
If I had to guess, I'd bet that there is something deep within the Seasons code that defines how roofs work with weather/light and how regular objects work with weather/light, and there is no way to make the roof pieces get a roof's weather effects and an object's lighting effects without altering the actual Seasons code specifically for these pieces... which is just something I do not see happening when you consider these roof objects only equate to maybe $4 worth of the venue (Aside from the fact there would have to be cross-team support, there could be compatibility issues altering the game to have a special case for a particular object the user might not actually have, plus corner-cases in general make a code ugly and possibly slower).
Use the pieces as sculpture as they were originally developed and advertised, or use them as roof in the way the team has graciously developed into an official fix.
We can hope one day we get the best of both worlds, but the little work I did with computer graphics in college, aside from reflection, lighting and transparency were two of the trickiest issues. So we'll probably be waiting a while.
Here's hoping though!
Did you put a flat roof underneath these roof pieces?
- For those who don't have Seasons, well you aren't required to have those flat roofs under the pieces so removing them would be pretty okay and you can have shadows and still garden like normal.
- For those with Seasons, well, unfortunately I don't think anyone had considered shadowing effects, probably not even the programming team tbh as the main focus was to add the blocking of weather, but not showing roof tiles.
We "may" see an update in the future, but I don't think this one would be a huge priority, versus others which hasn't been updated for a long time.
I think this would be an example of a flaw in the game itself tbh, but not a major one.
I just did the same thing - I thought I was losing my mind & kept missing it! Lol!
I haven't removed it via the DC Cache yet, so I haven't redownloaded. Is there a new roof tile that comes with it now? (since the flat roof we have now has color)
I think I will do the same, save myself the headache of uninstalling only to be dissappointed >.<
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We might just see that in the future, since they can sell tiles now through the Store.
Of course, they wouldn't give us free ones, like a normal business they'll probably sell it to us in the future.
This is what I've been thinking about doing. I think I'll turn some of the weather off (rain and hail) during 3 seasons and put the flat roof tiles back on the roof for winter when I want to have snow in my game. It may turn out that I end up turning weather effects off completely if I need to do that go get my shadows beck.
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